GAUTHIER
Art deco district of ironwork balconies and tiled stairwells, unchanged since the nineteen thirties.
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This guide explores Gauthier, the Art Deco quarter of Casablanca laid out in the 1920s under the French protectorate for Europeans and well-off Moroccans. It looks at a district that neither got flattened nor turned into a museum piece, where tiled stairwells lead to dentists and notaries working out of former family apartments, and where the cafes fill up by evening. It also touches on the preservation groups fighting for the facades. Best heard standing on the pavement beneath one of the wrought-iron balconies.
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